All-for-One Tourism is a new planning concept proposed by Chinese tourism management practitioners. Based on the present situation of tourism industry development, the new planning concept is to guide the transformation and upgrading of tourist destinations. The development level of all-for-one tourism represents the maturity of regional tourism industry. China has been actively promoting the a...

Sustainable tourism has achieved the status of being the superior goal in Norwegian government tourism policy, and is attaining much attention in the international scientific and political discourse on tourism. However, have policies on sustainable tourism and related concepts actually managed to make tourism more sustainable? This article seeks to address this question by first presenting the ...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) define sustainable tourism as a “„Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities”. It requires informed participation of relevant stakeholders and strong political lead...

Understanding residents’ attitudes is critical for successfully developing cultural tourism in aboriginal protected areas. This study developed an integration model combining two theories to identify the key determinants of indigenous residents’ attitudes toward cultural tourism development. Social exchange theory stresses the impact of the benefits derived from tourism on indigenous residents’...

Despite the significance and growth of tourism in the Caribbean, ontologies and epistemologies of sustainable tourism in island societies remain fragmented, fragile, fleeting and fatalistic. In a review of, and reflecting on the classical canons of tourism, sustainable tourism, and islands, within contemporary Caribbean island societies, this paper contends that our current scientific modes, mo...

As a resource-exhausted city, Tourism as a pillar industry of economic transformation in Zaozhuang is fostered as a key point. The development of tourism industry is closely related to the information technology. In the paper, after analyzing the tourism situation of Zaozhuang, WebGIS and Virtual Reality technology are applied to the tourism industry, and Tourism Information System in Zaozhuang...

Currently, ‘dark tourism’ is gaining popularity as a new tourism concept. Dark tourism is different from simple leisure, and its purpose is based on the succession of local grief or praying for dead people. ICT can be made more effective by optimising the potential of dark tourism. In this study, dark tourism will be analysed in terms of ICT.

Purpose – The tourism industry service network (TISN) is considered to be one of the largest components of tourism in the modern Vietnamese economy. The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is currently developing a long-term plan to diversify the country’s tourism industry and to improve the destination image of Vietnam. To successfully implement this plan, the Vietnamese tourism ...

Jafari , Jafar , J . R. Brent Rltchie, Toward a F ramework For Tour i sm Education: Problems and Prospects. Annals of Tour i sm Research 1981, VIII(I):13-34. The purpose of this article is to offer a f ramework for analysis and discussion of tour ism education. It first adopts a definition of tour ism within which interaction among its componen t s and ex t raneous aspects are considered. Speci...

The growing importance of tourism industry in world economy reflects on tourism growing importance in Croatian economy as well. Tourism industry represents one of the areas in which Internet technology has a significant influence changing some of the key industry premises. Hotel website offers new opportunities for hoteliers. But it is essential to hoteliers to evaluate their web presence and t...